"If Foxconn's labor costs go up, their product cost to us will go up", says HP Chief Meg Whitman... "Then we have to decide how much do we pass on to our customers versus how much cost do we absorb."

Now imagine how much you'd pay for an Apple, Dell or HP product if they had to pay U.S. labor costs... And imagine what that would do to U.S. labor in the U.S. industries currently benefiting from your discretionary income...

Wow! Who would have thought that a Chinese court would rule in favor of a U.S. company - over a Chinese company?

In Thomas Friedman's fascinating book The World is Flat, he claims that no two countries, after having opened McDonald's restaurants, have ever gone to war with one another... I.e., if you want to make peace with other countries, introduce them to capitalism...